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Chimp reunited with mom

Iowa State anthropologist Jill Pruetz recently helped reunite a
9-month-old chimpanzee who'd been taken by hunters with her mother
in Senegal. The captors of baby Aimee planned to sell the
chimp, but Pruetz' field assistant Johnny Kante talked them into giving
her back. Pruetz, Kante and field assistant Michel Keita
reintroduced Aimee to the community of savanna chimpanzees at
the Fongoli research site -- producing a reunion
with her mother Tia. The event was captured on video (courtesy of
National Geographic) by Pruetz, who tells the story here.